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Quotes About Tropical

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
~ Tahir Shah
Jamaica has a lot of foods that give you energy and strength, as well as being very nice to eat.
~ Rita Marley
Does the 'palm' of your hand ever share any cocoanuts?
~ Francis M. Faber Jr.
When this is finished, I think I should like to live where it is warm all year.
~ Brandon Sanderson
They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
~ James MacArthur
The Curse of the Iguana," he muttered to himself, slouched in the rain.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin. Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Oh God, the relief felt like oxygen. The relief felt like getting off a plane, after a long winter and a turbulent flight, and finding yourself outside the airport in a tropical clime. The relief was so profound, I felt undone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
banana handler.
~ Gary Krist
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.
~ Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
When I signed on and went and did 'Catching Fire,' the majority of it was done in Atlanta for rebate reasons. Luckily, that worked because there's forest. There's old rail stations and factories and lots of stuff we can use and sound stages. For the tropical stuff, we went to Hawaii.
~ Francis Lawrence
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
~ Dasha Zhukova
Found my tropical paradise here in Bali.
~ Pia Wurtzbach
It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.
~ Henry Walter Bates
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
~ Ezra Stiles
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
~ John Dyer
Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
~ Frances Beinecke
The thinning of the ozone layer is blamed on logging of tropical forests. The fact that the burning of fossil fuels and release of CFCs (chloro-fluoro-carbons) into the atmosphere occur largely in the rich countries are significantly ignored.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
Bolsonaro is a tropical Trump. They have a very common agenda, a very regressive agenda, when it comes to civil rights, social rights, and environmental rights.
~ Fernando Haddad
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
~ Italo Calvino
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
~ Harold E. Varmus
Belize has a tropical climate and is quite affordable and is developing a reputation as an inexpensive Hawaii. If you want to hide away someplace that is extremely low-key, Placencia is perfect. San Pedro is more touristy and modernized.
~ Kenneth Choi
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
~ Kevin Kwan
I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
~ Lydia Millet